The ability of artificial companions (virtual agents or robots) to establish meaningful relationships with users is still limited. In humans, a key aspect of such ability is empath...
Within the CHI community there is growing interest in moving beyond cognition and expanding into the social, emotional, and bodily aspects of the human-computer experience. Sex li...
Johanna Brewer, Joseph Kaye, Amanda Williams, Susa...
This short paper addresses the problem of mutual understanding from an anthropomorphic point of view, highlighting the underlying basic mechanisms and principles. Then the paper ex...
The design of many popular object-oriented languages like Smalltalk, Eiffel, or Sather follows a certain trend: The class is the only structuring form. In this paper, the need for ...